JEAN BAPTISTE EDOUARDDETAILLE (1848-), French painter, was born in Paris on the 5th of October 1848.
Detaille recorded other events in the military history of his country: the "Sortie of the Garrison of Huningue" (now in the Luxemburg), the "Vincendon Brigade," and "Bizerte," reminiscences of the expedition to Tunis.
Detaille became a member of the French Institute in 1898.
The subject symbolises the military glory of the nation, and shows the panoply of war as opposed to its grim realities.
Detaille, who was born in Paris in 1848, was one of the very few pupils taken by Meissonier, whose influence as a military painter at once appealed to him and has affected his work ever since.
He began to paint when he left school at the age of eighteen, and his first studies in his master's studio were of military subjects.
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